Music For Life - Hi-Tek, Busta Rhymes, Nas

It’s like… you can’t get a relationship with.

I’m still with.

my first love which is music

You’know’what’I’m’sayin'?

For real

The reason I’m here is.

is J Dilla, just like that, peace

(Music is my life)

Yeah, yeah

It started with rhythms I heard listenin' to the wall

The bouncin' of basketballs on playgrounds and all

The empty bottles that’s hollow, wind blowin' inside 'em

The flow and the rhymin' got my alignment to a science

Mixin' with my moms in the kitchen, them spoons rattlin'

Pots and pans, faucet water pourin', tunes managin'

To come from all the fussin' and ramblin'

What I noticed was -- pure music, untampered with

By things showbiz does;

older thugs showed us stuff

Like how to hold a plug, juice from the street light

It almost could have blowed us up

Crates of records, great sessions had the whole hood jammin'

Large speakers, fresh made, smell the wood sandin'

Father did his blues smooth, legendary jazz man

Saw his wife secondary to his true passion

Started with my crew rappin', new jacks in '82

Never looked back, now look what it changed me to: music

We gotta believe the future

We gotta believe the past

We gotta believe in more

That know that we have

We gotta believe each other

We gotta open up our minds

'Cause music is for life.

for life

Uh, what’s the difference between me and you?

It’s I’m a real connoisseur of this rap shit, I really do it

My whole life, man, is really music

Through my bassline, I’m livin' through it

Another expression of life I couldn’t live without

I like my music straight pure, not watered down

DAMN, it felt good to fulfill the dreams of gettin' out the hood

Kept me busy, gave me a chance to stop sellin' drugs

Spendin' time in the basement kept me from actin' up

Zonin' out, wishin' Dre could check it out

I’m here now, I can’t believe it

Proof in the puddin', everything happened for a reason

Through this music I’m able to feed the family

When I’m stressed out, it’s my sanity

It’s a lifestyle, all on the street and in Hollywood

Music in my DNA, it’s my livelihood: music

We gotta believe the children

We gotta believe in hope

We gotta believe in more

That know that we know

See, we gotta believe each other

We gotta open up our minds

'Cause music is for life.

for life

Keep the music alive

The good and the strong survive

I closed my eyes and imagined I was 'Jackson Five'

Randy and Michael, goin' through life cycle

Music allowed me to let life go

So vital to a youngster, comin' up amongst street hustlers

The big beat’ll touch us in such a special place

Givin' the ghetto a taste of what freedom is like

I reached a point in my life where I was needin' the mic

No second guessin', self-expression in lessons learned

Aggression became sessions where sessions burned

Put my soul into it, now my feet is firm

In the game, where a name is hard to earn

And hot cats' careers gets scarred and burned

Through the years, mine took a Godly turn

This is the story of my life here trapped in a verse

No matter the money or the movies, music is first, yeah…

We gotta believe the future

We gotta believe the past

We gotta believe in more

That know that we have

So we gotta believe each other

We gotta open up our minds

'Cause music is for life

See, we gotta believe the children

We gotta believe in hope

We gotta believe in more than all we know

See, we gotta believe each other

We gotta open up our minds

'Cause music is for life…

Ayo, Hi-Tek whattup?, you know who this is

It’s your boy Busta Bus down, Flipmode Squad, aiight

Now, you know, this is serious thing behind the music that we’re doing

It’s like, music, for me man, it mean, it means everything, family

You know when we going through, our personal strifes in life

You’know’what’I’m’sayin', we get up in that studio

Close that door, lock ourselves in, that little four-wall space, man

Get in the vocal booth and become whoever you wanna be

Express whatever you wanna feel, you’know’nah’mean?

When you going through your most frustrating time in life

You’know’what’I’m’sayin', you can realize that.

When you can’t find nobody else to speak to

You can speak through the music

Help other people feel your pain, your struggle, your passion

You know, what you live and die for, your values in life

You’know’nah’mean?

Music, man, it’s the voice of every being in the universe

The platform provided for us to communicate, when all else fails

It’s what allows us to be able to connect

With touching our hearts and the soul of the streets

Yo, I’m a Rosemont legend nigga, I’m a felony nigga

Keep rollin' the motha’fuckers in, my nigga

Like the bait, they.they.

hoppin' on it

When the bait go in, nigga, they can’t playa hate on it

I’m comin' back niggas, stronger than ever

Watch this, nigga, Bony Bones, clever if ever

Playa hater, can’t motha’fucker, fuck with this

My baby mama even talk about my shit, ha

I’m hotter than hot, hotter, what?

Tell 'em, boo

(Hang up the damn phone!), Yeah, I’m on, alright

Bony Bones in the house, nigga